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At CCM Linker has served as staff accompanist for the University Men’s Chorus, and has performed with the CCM Chorale, CCM Chamber Singers, and as organ soloist with the CCM Philharmonic. Linker was first place winner in the annual Strader Organ Competition at CCM in April 2004. Linker's earliest training came as a chorister in the Choir of St John's Lutheran Church in Princeton, IL, where he also served as organist from 1988-1993. From 1990-1993 Linker also served as organist at First Presbyterian Church in Princeton, IL. From 1993-1996 Linker was Director of Music & Organist at St Mary’s R C Church in Elgin, IL, and from 1997-2001 was Organist & Choirmaster of St Charles’ Episcopal Church in St Charles, IL.
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In 2001 Linker was appointed Organist/Choirmaster of the Church of the Good Shepherd (Episcopal) in Lexington, KY, where he leads a vibrant choir program of professional and volunteer singers. The choir maintains a rigorous rehearsal and service schedule, and sings two major concerts annually. Recent major works performed by the choir include Maurice Duruflé, Requiem, Op. 9, J S Bach, Magnificat in D, BWV 243, Leonard Bernstein, Chichester Psalms, and Mozart, Requiem, K 626. In addition to the choir’s routine at Good Shepherd the group tours occasionally, and July/August 2006 saw the choir singing residencies in Lichfield and Durham cathedrals in England, making this the choir’s second international tour under Linker’s leadership. Linker is also a past Dean of the Lexington Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, and currently serves in the capacity of Registrar and Associate Newsletter Editor.
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John lives in a small 80-year-old bungalow home just a few blocks from the church on a quiet street with his piano, harpsichord, and two overweight cats Nigel and Pierre.
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